Minoru Aosaki, "International Banking Regulation after the Financial Crisis: Economic Impacts and Policy Challenges in the US, Japan, and the EU"

To address lessons of the financial crisis, the Basel Committee introduced a new international framework on banking regulations, known as Basel III. The world leaders subsequently committed to implement it at the last G20 summit meeting. A current key issue is how regulators in each country should/can transform their current regulatory regime to the new regime under their own economic and regulatory environments. To consider the issue, Aosaki examines how economic costs and benefits of the regulatory reform would vary among countries and discusses policy challenges of the regulators to ensure the benefits and mitigate the costs.

Pradnya Palande, "Population Dynamics: A New Approach in Understanding Cancer Development"

Cancer, the most vicious and hard to cure disease, results from an accumulation of genetic alterations best known as mutations, in our body. These mutations constantly keep evolving by natural selection. A consequence of this evolution is that a cancer treatment will tend to kill the susceptible cells but will leave the resistant ones to flourish. A few months later, the cancer will reappear and will be resistant to previous treatment. Hence studying the population dynamics of cancer will provide insight into development of cancer and will help in developing better methods for cancer prevention and therapy.

Palande has concentrated her research on population dynamics of cancer cells in chronic myeloid leukemia, a type of blood cancer. She is trying to study the role of the antibody diversification enzyme, namely Activation Induced cytidine Deaminase (AID), in the generation of mutations associated with cancer progression and drug resistance in chronic myeloid leukemia.

Naoki Takeuchi, "Energy Policies, Clean Technologies, and Business Innovations in the United States"

In January 2011, at his State of the Union speech, President Obama suggested setting a goal that 80% of electricity will come from clean energy sources in the United States by 2035. He also suggested that the United States will become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. 

In Takeuchi's research, he tries to understand the dynamic interactions among government energy policies, clean technologies, and business innovations in the United States. His research includes an overview of federal energy policies (both regulations and incentives), an overview of California State government policies, recent trends of clean technologies, venture capital investments in cleantech companies, and major areas of clean technologies and business innovations. In this presentation, Takeuchi will present case studies focusing on cleantech companies in the Silicon Valley.

This two-day international forum at Stanford University brought together experts from academia, government, and industry to analyze leading cases of current institutional models for innovation in smart and green industries. Cases included multi-company collaborations, public-private partnerships, and government-funded consortia. To enable more focus and comparative analysis, sectors selected for focus included the built environment and intelligent transportation.

FORUM Speakers & DISCUSSANTS (listed in alphabetical order)

• Rohit T. Aggarwala, Special Advisor to the Chair, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
• Alan Beebe, Managing Director, China Greentech Initiative
  
• Sven Beiker, Executive Director, Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS)
• Ann Bordetsky, North America Market Development, Better Place
• Dennis Bracy, cEO, US-China Clean Energy Forum
• Curtis R. Carlson, President and CEO, SRI International
• Jaching Chou, Senior Transportation Analyst, Institute of Transportation
• Stephen J. Eglash, Executive Director, Energy and Environment Affiliates Program, Stanford University
• Henry Etzkowitz, President of Triple Helix Association; Senior Researcher, Human Sciences and Technology Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR), Stanford University; Visiting Professor at University of Edinburgh Business School
• Gordon Feller, Director of Urban Innovation, Cisco Systems
• TJ Glauthier, President, TJG Energy Associates, LLC
• Russell Hancock, President & Chief Executive Officer, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
• Ted Howes, Business for Social Responsibility
• Asim Hussain, Director of Product Marketing, Bloom Energy
• Paul Chao-Chia Huang, Deputy General Director, Service Systems Technology Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
• Kristina M. Johnson, Former Under Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
• Jeffrey Heller, President, Heller Manus Architects
• Allan King, Senior Manager, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan
• Michael Marlaire, Director, NASA Research Park
• David Nieh, General Manager, Shui On Land Limited
• Jon Sandelin, Senior Associate Emeritus, Office of Technology and Licensing, Stanford University
• Gerald Sanders, CEO & Chairman, SkyTran
• Tim Schweikert, President & CEO, China Region for GE Technology Infrastructure, GE
• Jonathan Thorpe, Senior Vice President, Gale International
• Kung Wang, Professor, China University of Technology
• Sean Wang, President, ITRI International Inc.
• Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey & Co; Co-Chair, Urban China Initiative

Questions for presentations and discussion included:

• What roles are public-private partnerships and other forms of collaboration playing to advance innovations in smart green industries, such as in the built environment or intelligent transportation?
• What innovations - not only in technologies and products but also in processes, models and platforms - are leading the way?
• What results are emerging from living labs, leading cities, or other outstanding examples of public-private partnerships around the world?
• How do results stack up against economic, energy and social metrics, e.g. economic productivity, quality of life, energy impact, financial payback, user response, etc.?
• What are implications for business strategies?
• What government policies are effectively nurturing advancement in these areas?

Outcomes will include policy recommendations as well as highlights to be included in a book published by SPRIE at Stanford.